]"Huh.... Where am I?" Nova asked aloud to himself as he found himself floating weightless and the area around him was completely blue as the sky.
"Nova my son look how much you have grown since the last time I saw you" a green blur commented as it appeared in front of nova who intern tried to back away but to his dismay he couldn't move.
"Son, why is this... thing calling me it's son, and how does it know my name. nova thought in his head as he kept an eye on the mist or what ever the thing was.
"W-who are you, where am I, and what do you want from me!?" Nova yelled at the thing that stopped a foot away from him.
"We are in your unconscious mind, and for the first and last question you will find out in do time but right now I must ask you this... Does hope exist?" The mist asked as it floated closer to the drake.
"What kind of a question is that of course it does, hope will always exist, you can break a soldiers spirit, lock them in the darkest dungeon but you can never break their will to keep fighting the good fight, when darkness consumes all HOPE WILL ALWAYS BE THERE TO IGNITE THE WILL TO FIGHT AGIAN!!!!!!" nova shouted the last words in an ear splintering roar as if wanting to make himself heard to the outside world.
"He is ready, sergeant wake him up" the mist said as it floated away disappearing from site and right as it disappeared nova could feel himself being pulled back into counsiuseness.
"Sir he's waking up to quickly, his heart rate and brain functions are rising to drastically, what do we do sir we can't drug him again or else we'll loss him for sure" a voice said with a hint of fear as nova started clenching his fists and mouth that were both bonded together by strong titanium alloy with his feet and tail strapped down by the alloy as well on the bed that nova was laying in.
"Arrrrrrrrr someone better tell me where the hell I am before that someone will have a very pissed off dragon on their case and I don't take kindly to being strapped down to a bed like some dog" nova said with rage in his eyes he looked around the room noticing three blurry figures in the room.
His eyes fixed themselves to the rooms lighting he noticed that he was in a hospital room with Blinking monitors and other equipment scattered around the room, his gaze then swung to where the three figures were he then saw that all three of them were ponies, one of them was wearing a white lab coat which nova guessed was the doctor, the second one looked like a soldier with very odd looking armour that was oddly enough the same colour as the drakes scales a real dark blue, it had lights glowing on different parts of the armour and the pony was wearing a helmet concealing his face and just as odd the visor of the helmet looked identical to the sunglasses that nova was wearing, the last one stood out the most and made nova calm down just like that because he looked very familiar, nova quickly racked his brain of all the ponies he met over his journey but nothing came up till he thought about the one friend he had for all those years the nova had stayed in the castle with his sisters and thats when it hit him like a brick and made nova mentally facepalm.
''Private stardust speedster'' nova said calmly '' speedy where have you been all these years'' nova said as he looked the soldier up and down taking in all the facial features of him remembering what he looked like since he shouldn't change because he was turned into a vamp pony for the lunar guard to guard nova when he was little 24,7. he to the drakes side as if protecting him from any danger, shortly after nova met up with speedster and kept the same fast pace as him and walked out of the hospital, as soon as nova walked out he was met with a large crowd of ponies, dragons, and griffins that were all trying to take a picture of him and talk to him but where held back be aa brocade of armoured soldiers that were also wearing the same armour and colour as the private that was still right by his side making sure no one got close to him, nova looked straight ahead seeing a weird craft in front of him that was painted black like his head scales and looked like it was floating mid air and had an opening on the side with two blue armoured guards guarding the object and as they saw the drake one of the guards wissled and all the soldiers keeping the crowed away from nova turned and made a protective circle around nova, and speedster.
''Hey whats with the crowed and all the soldiers wearing armour with my scale colour on them'' nova asked as he looked to speedster who was on his left and were the same height. speedster in return kept looking straight ahead with a large smile plastered on his face.
this really scared nova cause whenever speedster gave that signature smile something very bad was bound to happen to him.
after what seemed forever they finally made it past the pedestrians to the odd craft, once nova and speedster got on the craft the door shut which really scared nova as he looked frantically around seeing a few seats and windows on both sides and speedster sitting in one of the seats, speedster looked up seeing novas uncertainty and laughed like crazy.
'' hahahahahahahahahaha, holly crap you should see your face, nova this is a air craft, we are flying like 12k right now, come on sit down and enjoy the ride'' speedster said as he pointed with a hoof to the empty seat beside him.
nova sat down and looked out the window seeing everything from the air the whole area was one big city even bigger then centerlot, nova looked up not seeing the sky or sun but brown and lights lighting up the area.
''what is this place and where are we?''nova asked mesmerized by the seen before looking to speedster with wide eyes and mouth agape in which speedster chucked lightly.
''We are in an underground base to be more precise we are under the old castle of the sisters in the everfree forest, there is actually a camp above us in the castle guarding the entrances into here, since the attack on centerlot we have been evacuating all civilizations as quickly as we could to the secret bases that have been spread all across the planet, we actually just recently put a space station on the moon, the moon program was actually lunas idea and right now shes sending us tactical maps and commands from there for the war.'' speedster finished with a wide smile as he looked at nova who looked as if he had been hit with a jackhammer to the face.
''W-when did we become so advanced'' nova asked still shocked.
'' Since you were just a baby dragon'' speedster answered while giving nova a good punch to the shoulder.
''ETA 30 seconds to command bunker, sir clearance has been denied to the admiral, what are your orders sir?'' the pilots voice asked over a comm that was hooked onto sergeant speedsters armour.
''Land anyways nova is the top ranking and is our top priority to get him safely to his destinations, tell the boys to get ready for a fast drop and to protect the admiral at all costs, we're talking about the highest ranking personnel with level 5 clearance do you understand the risks, PILOT!!!!!''speedster literally yelled the last statement into the comms.
'' umm speedy what is level 5 clearance, and since when did i become an admiral?'' nova asked still shocked at speedsters outburst which you would never see happen unless it was a life or death scenario and or the importance of the mission or personnel.
''It means you are literally the law, you have access to everything from weapons, to vehicles, to profiles, artifacts, money, and the most classified documents ever made in equestrias history, lots of bad people and ponies would do anything for that kind of clearance thats why we need to get you to safety before some trigger happy tries to get a hold of you'' speedster said with the most stern look nova has ever seen coming from speedster made his stomach churn unwillingly since speedster is usually serious but not this serious, he's usually more lade back around close friends especially around nova but right now nova wouldn't even dare get in the way of speedster when he's in this defensive state of mind.
''Sir we're touching down in 3...2.........1 touch down, sir I'm being requested to leave the landing zone at once or else they'll... fire on us, sir our trooper carrier has just landed and the troopers are making a defensive perimeter around the shuttle, sir what do do we do?'' the pilot asked quickly as fear was taking hold of the pilot that was in the cabin in front of them.
''Open the blast doors we're marching right through those doors no matter what, we cannot stay here any longer nova, those bad people will try anything to get to you and i know that their already coming.'' speedster said as he trotted in front of nova with an odd object hooked to his shoulder, as nova got out of the shuttle he saw the troopers from before were here protecting him with all types of weapons out from swords to shoulder mounted weapons, as nova looked at the soldiers.... his soldiers he saw that their were more then just ponies, in the ranks were also other drakes way taller then him and even a few griffons, as nova looked he saw one dragon that looked very familiar but couldn't tell because the dragon was in full armour without a helmet instead the dragon was wearing a visor identical to his, nova stared for a moment before pushing the thoughts to the side and focused on the problem at hand or hoof, reaching behind him he grabbed the hilt of blaze and unsheathing it and holding it in both claws ready to fight.
After nova did that he saw that all eyes were on him so he thought quickly of some kind of rallying speech for his soldiers that were about to go into battle with their own allies, after a moments pause nova thought of what to say and found a crate laying on the landing pad and stood on it in front of the platoon and taking a deep breath.
''TODAY YOU ARE ALL HERE STANDING SIDE BY SIDE.... BROTHERS, SISTERS, PONIES,DRAGONS, GRIFFONS. ALL ALLIED TOGETHER STANDING SIDE BY SIDE AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS, YOU ALL HAVE PROVEN TO ME THAT YOU REALLY ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST FROM NOW ON THIS PLATOON WILL BE CALLED BLAZING INFERNO.''Nova said as he looked around at the troops of blazing inferno. After a minute the whole platoon went into a full chorus of yelling yeah and clapping loudly as nova raised his sword above his head as soon after the rest of the platoon did the same yelling even louder
After they settled down nova stepped down from the crate and let speedster take control of blazing inferno, before anything else could happen all the doors to command centre opened and wave after wave of droids poured out heading straight at them weapons raised and began firing at the platoon already taking 10 troopers out and making the rest run for cover and cover the admiral who took cover behind the shuttle with a few troopers, speedster and the mystery dragon that has been keeping an eye on nova.
After a while speedster came over to nova with a weird weapon with what looked like a trigger like a crossbow which nova had practice with in the past so he would know how to point and shoot.
"Here take this blaster, it shoots plasma out the end so all you have to do is point and shoot like a crossbow which I'm sure you have used before, also beware of the kick back the gun has so hold it firm or else it willfully back and nail you in the face not like it would make a difference your naturally that ugly!!!" Speedster yelled over the gun fire and laughing at his own antics before looking back at nova and yelling just kidding over the sound of the gun fire.
Nova then turned to the side of the ship and tried firing the blaster but in the attempt the rifle went flying over the edge of the pad and fall to the city bellow.
"Here let me show you how it's done" a feminine voice said as nova looked to see who it was seeing the mystery dragon motioning him over with dual pistols in her hands, nova quickly moved to her position which had the least amount of oncoming plasma fire.
Once he got to her, she handed him one of the small pistols and told him to hold the handle with both hands, since nova was left handed she has to show him the reverse way to hold it without it flying out of his hands, as soon after nova tried shooting and found it way easier to aim and shoot, nova then took out a dozen or so droids before they began to advance on the platoon, making the platoon to start falling apart with troopers being shot down left and right before not to long after all that was left where 5 troopers, nova, speedster, and the dragoness, and the droids made a circle around them raising their weapons ready to slaughter them like caged animals, but at that instant the whole platform became shadowed by a large figure flying down from the top of the command centre towards them at unimaginable speeds and at the last moment before it collided with the platform it opened its wings and light landed on the platform in front of the small group that was left of the platoon and the droids towering over them and a closer look nova could tell that it was a fully grown dragoon from the outline of scales on its head, in the light the dragon had blue scales and green head scales going down its back and the inner part of its wings were also green at full length the wings were at least two shuttles long, the dragon all together was at least a football fields long and nova could tell it was a male because it had braud shoulders and was literally ripped with muscles and those muscles probably had muscles themselves.
''STOP!!!. Hold your fire, the test is over... deactivate!!!." the dragons voice boomed throughout the platform and through the command centre shutting all the droids down and all the troopers that were shot got up and walked into the barracks that was right beside the command centre, the large dragon bending down toward nova had a large smile on his face, "My son you have completed your test of leadership, you showed us all that you are more then worthy enough to be a leader... you have courage beyond compare even in the midst of an overwhelming foe, you are able to rally your troops together and giving them the will to keep fighting... you have shown us that you are ready to lead us against the terrine of sombra and the changelings, son you have made me very proud, congratulations."
'who are you, why do you keep calling me your son, and were you the one that was talking to me when i was unconscious?" nova asked taking a step closer to the dragon.
"Nova eternal blaze, who do you think named you, I'm your father nova.... my name is Whirlwind nebula blaze, and yes i was... I was testing you to see if you were ready to take command of a special forces unit for a top priority mission that we've been preparing for since your sergeant left on a solo ops to recon the castle locate and bring you back safely." Ww. Said as he gestured to speedster who intern gave a slight nod as if he was ordered to do something and walked over to nova with a small grin on his face.
"Now this is the good part, it's time to pick your very own armour, weapons, and vehicle that's the best part since you can have any ride you want with your status as admiral and the highest level of access since well your father." Speedster said as he started pulling nova with a wing draped over is shoulder towards the armoury that was a huge 4 story building with weird floating cars that were parked in front of the building and once in a while one of the cars would take off with someone driving it.
Once inside nova was pulled into a room by a dragon technician that was wearing that same as the other species wearing a dark blue overcoat with pockets everywhere filled with gadgets and gizmos that nova had no idea what they were for.
The technician let go of nova once they were in a armour configuration room that looked like it was meant for dragons only since most of the armours had gloves attached with claws sticking out and pieces of armour that looked like they were meant for wings, the whole room was full of armour hanging on the walls, wires and cables littered the floors that attached to monitors for armour testing.
"Ok sir first can I ask for you to lay down on the bed over their so I can see in your mind at what you would want your suit to look like and to put in a wireless uplink into your brain so you can wirelessly command your helmets HUD with your brain, it's actually pretty simple all we do is drill an opening into the back of your skull an-" the technician got cut of by nova screeching WHAT before the technician injected nova with something that made him calm down and go into a deep sleep while the technician worked.
Right outside speedster was listening closely hearing the technician say a few things then went and started tell him about the enhancement and waited for novas reaction counting down from 3.
"3.......2.............and 1" speedster whispered listening intently.
"WHAT". Speedster heard Nova yell at the top of his lungs making the whole armoury go silent as they all heard their admiral yell like a school girl, and making the sergeant fall over on the floor bursting a gut laughing from hearing his best friends reaction mowing that he didn't know that it would be painless when they inject the medicine so it's quick and painless for the patient.
-3 hours later-
"Hey buddy you awake yet..... Nothing hmm he should be up by now, probably sleeping" speedster said as he looked around before an evil idea came into his mind from thinking of the best prank of all time. Half an hour later speedster came back with a bucket that he placed on the sleeping drakes head, ice that he slid on the grey floor making it super slippery, and finally took out a taser with his left wing out of a pocket in his armour and putting the taser end by nova arm that was hanging limp off the bed in the armour room before pressing the trigger with his right hoof igniting the taser and jolting the drake awake with a start as the drake jumped out of the bed with the bucket still on his face and began sliding on the slippery floor and falling face first on the hard floor and laying there not saying a word, then speedster waltz over picking up a rentch from off the floor with his right wing and started banging the rentch against the bucket a few times before dropping the rentch and putting the taser away and watch the drake still laying on the floor.
"I hate you" nova said plainly still laying face first on the ground for a few minutes before getting up and taking the bucket off his head glaring at the sergeant who still had a grin on his face, " you do realize that I will get you back one of these days" nova said plainly as he gave speedster a small grin.
"Why did you wake me up anyways?" Nova asked while stretching his arms out.
"You have been out for about 3 hours, and your suit was made 2 hours ago so I decided to wake you up" speedster replied as he walked out of the room with nova in tow.
"So where is my suit then?" nova asked as he scratched the back of his heading feeling something odd like the back of his brain was buzzing and getting stronger every step he took in the same direction until nova had to ask what the buzzing feeling is.
"Nova that is your wireless connection module, it's trying to connect to your suits systems, it's getting stronger because your getting closer to the suit, once your in your suit the buzzing will stop and you can take your suit off freely." Speedster said as he picked up speed heading towards a door that had a weird box thing on the wall beside the door and a guard at the door as soon as he saw the admiral and sergeant he stepped forward from his post.
"Admiral if you'll please put your hand on the scanner so we can check your authorization codes please" the guard said pointing a hoof towards the box, as nova came up to the scanner he saw that the screen was black with an outline of a hand, so nova put his hand on the outline which was a perfect fit before hearing a beep and on the screen above the scanner showed a picture of novas face with the sunglasses on obviously and below it showed his rank and last name, Admiral Blaze, and below that had writing in bolded red, saying top priority level 5 clearance.
"Authorization code accepted" a female voice said coming out of no where, which made nova jump and grab hold of his sword ready to take it out if need be.
"Whoa settle down buddy it's just the automated voice speaking, it's not alive or able to hurt you" speedster said as he jumped in front of nova calming him down.
"Ok, sorry just a little jumpy since centerlot..." Nova trailed off as he thought back to what happened to him before his evil self took hold of his body.
"Later you have to tell me what happened in there, but right now it's time to put on your suit." Speedster said as he walked in leading nova into the secure room which was filled with robots and scientist with clipboards, as soon as they saw nova they all stopped what they were doing and saluted him, in which he nicely saluted back.
"Sir your suit is right this way, if you would please follow me" one of the droid helpers said as it took him to a small platform and told him to stand on it, once he stepped on it multiple robotic arms came part from the pad with pieces of armour and began encircling him rapidly and before he knew it his uniform was taken off by a few of the robotic arms and in its place was a close fitting black cloth that oddly enough to nova was comfortable as if it was a second skin, once that was on pieces of armour was slipped onto nova and in a matter of minutes his suit was on and a droid walked over with a helmet in its arms holding it out to nova who took it looking at the face plate for a moment turning the helmet around in his hands before putting it on his head, as speedster walked around nova looking over the armour before saying one simple word in amazement.
"DAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"